What are ukuleles made of?
Ukuleles take lumber, adhesive, lacquer and nylon directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
How ukuleles are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Timber through lumber
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Corn through lacquer, ethanol
- Sugarcane through lacquer, ethanol
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Sulfur through lacquer, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Sugar beet through lacquer, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 16
Paraffin waxEthanolBenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaHydrogenNaphthaToluene